LAGOS – Justice Abiola Soladoye of an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced a 56-year-old driver, Folarin Raufu, to life imprisonment for defiling his employer’s granddaughter, aged 5 years.
The judge, while pronouncing the convict guilty held that the prosecution has successfully proved all the ingredients of defilement against Raufu.
Justice Soladoye said that the conduct of the convict was nasty, devoid of character as his own way of saying ‘thank you’ to his employer was to defile his grand-daughter.
She noted that the survivor brilliantly presented the sequence of the incident of how the convict recklessly had canal knowledge her.
She said, “The survivor was lucid and unshaken during her cross-examination as she spoke eloquently and intelligently detailing the gory incident of how her grand-father’s driver ruthlessly defiled her whenever no one was at home.
“The survivor recognised the defendant as Folarin who had sexual intercourse with her both in the living room and inside her grand-father’s jeep, as he put his penis inside her ‘bumbum.
“The survivor said the defendant was brutal with her and that he had sex with her in the jeep when there was no light in the house.
“The grand father, who was the prosecution witness two (PW2), in his testimony said that his grand daughter whispered in his ears that the defendant defiled her which necessitated his arrest,”
Soladoye further said that defendant who attempted to buy his way out of the charge was a colossal waste of time as he was a pathological liar.
“The convict was a pathological liar who tried to deter himself from the charge as he claimed not to understand English Language but he responded as the registrar of the court read out the charge in English.
“The defendant denied having sexual intercourse with the survivor but told the court he only planted kisses on her cheeks and cuddled her.”